Senior Software Engineer II

Mya Systems; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

29 days holiday + bank holidays

Private medical and dental care

Pension contribution 10%

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance Cover

Cycle to work scheme

Hybrid working model

Volunteering days

Dog-friendly office

Job summary

The Stepstone Group is seeking a skilled Staff/Principal Engineer to lead our Data Platform team, shaping the technical direction across data, platform, and infrastructure domains. You will drive scalable, governable data solutions and collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and Enterprise Architects.

In this role you will mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and champion AI-assisted development and automation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Staff Engineer or Principal Engineer in a senior IC leadership role.
• Strong background in data platforms, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical vision, roadmap and architecture of the Data Platform across data, platform and infrastructure domains.
• Establish engineering standards, best practices and reusable patterns with Enterprise Architecture alignment.
• Drive engineering excellence by improving code quality, testing, observability, reliability and operational practices.
• Mentor engineers and champion AI-assisted development and engineering automation.

Skills

Staff/Principal Eng leadership

Data platforms

Cloud-native architectures

AWS

Terraform

Kafka/MSK

Airflow

Spark

Datadog observability

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

DBT

Iceberg

Job description

Company Description

Who we are

At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for jobseekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match in fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.

Join our team of 4,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world's leading job platform.

Job Description

The job at a glance

Join our team and you'll be responsible for providing technical leadership for our Data Platform team, defining technical direction and driving architectural decisions across data, platform and infrastructure domains.

Working in the Data Platform department you will build scalable, reliable and well-governed data platform capabilities that support analytics, AI and business-critical products, while collaborating closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and Enterprise Architects.

This is so important to us. By joining our team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.

Your responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical vision, roadmap and architecture of the Data Platform, driving decisions across data, platform and infrastructure domains
• Establish engineering standards, best practices and reusable patterns while partnering with Enterprise Architecture and influencing technical direction
• Drive engineering excellence by improving code quality, testing, observability, reliability and operational practices
• Support end-to-end delivery by guiding teams through complex technical challenges, improving decision-making, and contributing to planning and risk management
• Mentor engineers, grow senior technical capabilities and champion AI-assisted development and engineering automation

Qualifications

Your skills and qualifications

• Proven experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer or in an equivalent senior individual contributor leadership role
• Strong background in data platforms, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, with experience shaping technical direction across teams and stakeholders
• Solid expertise in relevant technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue or Spark, and building scalable data solutions
• Experience with modern data ecosystems including data lakes/lakehouse architectures, Iceberg or similar table formats, as well as batch and streaming processing
• Knowledge of data quality, governance, cataloguing and observability tools (e.g. Datadog), with DBT or AI-assisted engineering practices as a plus

Additional Information

Your benefits

We're a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you're with us. Because your job shouldn't take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays

• Private medical and dental healthcare

• Pension contribution up to 10%

• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

• Life Assurance Cover

• Cycle to work scheme

• Hybrid working model

• Volunteering days

• and you can bring your dog to the office!

Our commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.